Plans for a review of mortuary services at University Hospital Waterford are being finalised and the final report will be available in September, Health Minister Simon Harris has announced.

A key member of the emergency department task force set up to tackle overcrowding said it has become expert at “measuring the problems, describing the problems, but not resolving them”.

Bloodstains on a machine in South Tipperary General Hospital’s intensive care unit and red stains on a mattress and pillow were discovered during an audit of the hospital’s three units.